Person:Tryntie Bos (1)

! A Study of the Elting Family, Page 2 B22A152 (TYNEBROCK)Ulster County, NY. Probate Records In the office of the Surrogate, andin the County Clerk's Office at Kingston, NY Vol. 1 by GustaveAnjou, Ph.D 1906 FHC (974.734 Ah 59)  ? some place had name asTrynntie Bos _______N

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CONTINUED: from Cornelis Barentszoon SlechtNotes:The Indians were dissatisfied with the results of an earlierskirmish and desired revenge. Thursday, June 7, 1 663, a warm,cloudless, and peaceful day. Most of the men of the settlements ofW iltwyck and Nieuw Dorp (later Hurley) were working their corn fieldstaking adva ntage of the fine weather, suspecting nothing. The gates ofthe stockade were le ft open and unguarded. Shortly after eleven o'clockin the forenoon, Indians beg an entering all the gates in small bandswhich immediately divided and dispersed .The Indians approached the wives and the few men in a friendlymanner, bearing maize and beans to sell. The villagers were thus dupedinto staying in their hou ses while the Indians went from place to placeas spies to discover the strength in men. Few men were in thevillage. Near the mill gate were Albert Gysbertsen with two servants,Tjerck Claesen De Witt. The sheriff was in his office with tw ocarpenters, two clerks, and one thresher. At the Domino's home,himself, two ca rpenters and a laborer. A few soldiers were at theguardhouse. Cornelis Slecht w as at his brewhouse with his son. Hendrick Jochemsen and Jacob, the brewer, wer e at the gate towards theriver.A quarter hour hardly passed when some settlers on horsebackrushed through the mill gate of crying out, "The Indians have destr oyedthe new village!" The instant the cry was heard, the Indians, who werescatt ered through Wiltwyck, began a general attack, murdering wives andchildren in t heir homes with axes and tomahawks and firing on them withmuskets and pistols. Hendrick Jochemsen was very severely wounded inhis house by two shots.The farme rs left their fields to defend the town. TheIndians had been in the town about a half hour, had commanded all thestreets, and were continuing to shoot at the inhabitants. The few menleft in the village, including Cornelis Slecht and his son, probablyHendrick, were given the alarm by the sheriff and, without guns or sidearms, they courageously chased the Indians and put those toflight. Thomas C hambers, wounded as he entered the town, issuedimmediate orders with the Sherif f and Commissaries to secure the gates,clear the cannon, and to drive out the s avages remaining in the town.In their flight from the town, the Indians seized whatever women andchildren they could catch and carried them prisoner outside t he gates.They plundered the houses and set the village on fire to the windward, the wind at the time blowing from the south. Had not the wind changed tothe wes t, the fire would have been devastating. Twelve houses inWiltwyck were burned. Eighteen men, women, and children were killed.Ten were carried away as prisoner s.The new village of Nieuw Dorp (Hurley), about three milesaway, was burned to the ground and most of its inhabitants were killed ortaken prisoner. A new unco vered barn, one rick, and a little stack ofreed was all that remained. Only a f ew made it back safely toWiltwyck. That evening, people from both villages gath ered together.They counted sixty-nine men remaining as able-bodied. They rebuil t theburned palisades in Wiltwych and kept watch along the bastions. Over theen suing days the villagers had skirmishes with the Indians, but sufferedfew losse s.The attack had been carefully planned and efforts made toavoid suspicion, but the Indians attacked the village of Nieuw Dorp toosoon and allowed a rider to race the three miles to warn Wiltwyck beforethe Indians there were quite prepar ed.An ordinance was passed on August 4, 1663 forbiddinganyone from leaving the fort to mow in their fields without consent ofthe Captain Lieutenant and a suff icient convoy. On October 9, 1663,Hendrick Slecht, a son of Cornelis Slecht, wa s brought into court forviolating the decree. Representing his son, Cornelis ma intained that hewas not obliged to obey the local court and asked permission to take thecase to the Supreme Council. Over-ruling him, the court ordered Cornel isto pay his son's fine. On the same day, the the

1.   The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Ancestral File (R) (2). (Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998).
2.   The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Ancestral File (TM) 1998 (2). (Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998).
3. ↑ Holland Society of New York (New York City); Kenneth Scott; Samuel Oppenheim; Kenn Stryker-Rodda; Dingman Versteeg; and Peter R Christoph. Kingston papers
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